fortuna
Short definition (Lewis & Short): chance, hap, luck, fate, fortune (good or ill; syn.: casus, fors; fatum, providentia).
Full entry: Lexicon.
630 occurrences of this form in 40 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- Letters to Lucilius
- Letters to Friends
- Aeneid
- Annals
- Histories
- The Golden Ass
- Letters to Atticus
- Metamorphoses
- Civil War
- On Tranquility of Mind
- Philippics
- De Officiis
- Satires
- Gallic War
- Epigrams
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- Letters
- Odes
- The Jugurthine War
- De Oratore
- Medea
- On the Happy Life
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- De Re Publica
- Satires
- Phaedra
- Life of Augustus
- Agricola
- Germania
- Poems
- Epistles
- De Rerum Natura
- On the Shortness of Life
- Life of Julius Caesar
- Georgics
- Ars Poetica
- Ars Amatoria
- Life of Domitian
- Life of Tiberius
Example passages
……nec multitudine compotum eius doni uolgari laudem. bina postea, inter tot annos, tot bella, opima parta sunt spolia: adeo rara eius fortuna decoris fuit.…
……de Crasso crudelis et insolens Parthus; Gaius Caesar iussit Lepidum Dextro tribuno praebere cervicem, ipse Chaereae praestitit. Neminem eo fortuna provexit, ut non tantum illi minaretur, quantum permiserat. Noli huic tranquillitati confidere; momento mare evertitur. Eodem die ubi luserunt navigia, sorbentur.…
……et dignitatem tuam in virtute atque in rebus gestis tuis atque in tua gravitate positam existimare; si quid ex iis rebus, quas tibi fortuna largita est, non nullorum hominum perfidia detraxerit, id maiori illis fraudi quam tibi futurum. A me nullum tempus praetermittitur de tuis rebus et agendi et cogitandi; utor ad omnia Q. Selicio,……